Re: [boost] [Announce] Boost Installer for Visual C++ 7.1/8.0
----- Mensaje original ----- De: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 17, 2006 11:06 pm Asunto: [boost] [Announce] Boost Installer for Visual C++ 7.1/8.0
Boost Consulting is pleased to announce the availability of a Windows installer for the current Boost release (1.33.1). See:
Hello Dave, suggestions for improvement: when the installer is being executed by an user without administrator privileges: 1. The default installation directory (rooted in Program Files) is not allowed for writing. 2. When the installer tries to write there, it (expectedly) fails, but the error message is misleading (see attached snapshot). It'd be great if the app showed a more sensible explanation of the problem; I'm not so sure whether the default installation dir should be one accessible to all users (for instance, the dir with moniker CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, typically "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data".) HTH, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
on 5/17/06 5:46 PM, JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z at joaquin@tid.es wrote:
Hello Dave, suggestions for improvement: when the installer is being executed by an user without administrator privileges:
1. The default installation directory (rooted in Program Files) is not allowed for writing. 2. When the installer tries to write there, it (expectedly) fails, but the error message is misleading (see attached snapshot).
It'd be great if the app showed a more sensible explanation of the problem; I'm not so sure whether the default installation dir should be one accessible to all users (for instance, the dir with moniker CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, typically "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data".)
You need to be at least a Power User to write to All Users\Application Data and Program Files so that isn't really a good option either. There is no directory guaranteed to be writeable by all users. Chris
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